How to format your references using the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Chicurel, M. (2002). Genome analysis at your fingertips: Nature, Vol. 419, No. 6908, pp. 751, 753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finney, L.A., and O’Halloran, T.V. (2003). Transition metal speciation in the cell: insights from the chemistry of metal ion receptors: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 300, No. 5621, pp. 931–936.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan, V.N., Elsesser, M.T., and Pine, D.J. (2003). Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 301, No. 5632, pp. 483–487.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Li, F., Cowley, D.O., Banner, D., Holle, E., Zhang, L., and Su, L. (2014). Efficient genetic manipulation of the NOD-Rag1-/-IL2RgammaC-null mouse by combining in vitro fertilization and CRISPR/Cas9 technology: Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 5290.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Bannwarth, H. (2005). Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Zaheer, S. (2016). Practical Oracle E-Business Suite: An Implementation and Management Guide (E. Arslan, Ed.), Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Imono, M., Yoshimura, E., Tsuchiya, S., and Watabe, H. (2015). “Method of Embodying the Newspaper Headlines by Using Words and Phrases in the Article.” Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice, Tweedale, J.W., Jain, L.C., Watada, J. and Howlett, R.J. eds., Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 51–63.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). According To The UN, Current Pledges Aren’t Enough To Halt Climate Change: IFLScience,.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1994). Continuing Professional Education Study: Budget Analysts in the Federal Government, GS-560 Series: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hemschik, T.K. (2008). Course designs, instructional strategies, and support systems in K–8 online education: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Nir, S.M., and Rosenberg, E. (2016). Recreation and Commerce Collide on City’s Crowded Waterways: New York Times, p. A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chicurel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chicurel, 2002; Finney and O’Halloran, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Finney and O’Halloran, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	KSCE J. Civ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1226-7988
ISSN (online)	1976-3808
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering